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408 sats \ 22 comments \ @kepford 8 Jan news

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47 sats \ 16 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 9 Jan

Dry fire hydrants. Millionaire firemen. High crime. Crumbling infrastructure. Is this that “civilization” that Oliver Wendell Holmes was talking about? Possibly. Contra the clueless Holmes, however, taxes are definitely not the price we pay for civilization. If anything, taxes destroy civilization by funneling resources to extractive state organs which work primarily to enrich themselves and the ruling oligarchy.

And why should ordinary people expect any real services in exchange for all those enormous taxes they pay, year after year? They shouldn’t. The state looks out for the state and its closest friends. It doesn’t look out for the people who pay the bills, except on occasion and by accident in pursuit of some good public relations.

Why do we expect anything from the politicians and state workers that have their noses in the tax trough? They are thieves and liars that are there for, what we call here, assmilking, but they are assmilking the general public for taxes not just a few sats. FTS!

79 sats \ 15 replies \ @Undisciplined 9 Jan

Everyone understands this when we aren't talking about the state. When someone gets paid regardless of performance, don't expect high performance.

The magic spell of statism leads people to expect completely inhuman behavior from the very human people who make up the state.

28 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford OP 9 Jan

You nailed it

27 sats \ 13 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 9 Jan

This is the wool that has been pulled over people’s eyes; the magic spell of STATE. It is an illusion meant to put a collar around your neck, an iron collar with a lock. It is a shame that people can’t seem to reach up and pull the wool.

21 sats \ 12 replies \ @Undisciplined 9 Jan

The reason cults work is because people are scared to pull that wool off, even when they know it's there.

28 sats \ 6 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 9 Jan

Also, their minds are being controlled by those in charge of the cult. Then, if this is so, couldn’t you call the political, corporate organization, United States of America, a cult, too?

23 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined 9 Jan

Very much so. I think that's exactly what it is. Not just the USA, though. It's the entirety of Western Civilization. The whole damn thing is a cult built around Social Contract nonsense.

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4 sats \ 4 replies \ @Bell_curve 9 Jan

cults or religion

15 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 9 Jan

The level of theological sophistication definitely approaches religion.

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13 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 9 Jan

At what range do they differentiate? They look the same to me!

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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @Bell_curve 9 Jan

Paying taxes is not a social contract, rather it's a political contract

Politicians have ignored the interests of taxpayers in favor of non taxpayers such as homeless and undocumented immigrants in California

How much do bilingual or multilingual signs and ballots and customer service cost taxpayers?

Taxpayers need to start flexing their muscles to remind Sacramento and city hall who is in charge

13 sats \ 2 replies \ @kepford OP 9 Jan

Paying taxes is no contract at all. Unless you consider a contract where you don't sign but are at the end of a gun a contract. It's simple. It's theft. Don't over think it.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 9 Jan

I agree it's theft but the victim has some political leverage.

It's a political not social arrangement.

You can criticize Holmes's statement but he never called taxation a social contract

The author of the article is attacking a straw man

13 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford OP 9 Jan

Saying that ignores the fact that regardless of my interaction poltically as an individual the outcome is the same. It's no contract at all. And you called it a political contact. That's not what a contract is. It's something. Just not a contract. It's taxation. It's a form of government but it isn't a contact. That language is an intentional deception to confuse the masses. One might call it a psyop even.

The secret to all of these types of things is to replace the state with a company or individual and ask how that would change things. The view of the state is special. It's a false god that is viewed in ways that rival a diety.

In fact one way to view the Bible is one story arch where man tries to create his own god and God repeatedly mocks and defeats their attempts. From Babel to Revelation.

13 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 9 Jan

What good would flexing muscles do? The state is a one-party state and has moved to make it impossible to stop the voter fraud. The Californicated chose this, they voted for it and now they are bending over and getting it good and hard. This goes to the maxim: Watch out for what you wish, you may just get it!